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Not a wingless wet, but not a bad pattern to have in your flybox



CDC&Elk
Hook: Tiemco 102Y #15
Thread: Uno-thread 6/0, brown
Body/'legs': CDC, natural (or color to match a natural)
Wing/head: Mule deer, natural

Video here (720p):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iXWIS9dprM

Cheers,
Hans W

I have caught a lot of trout on this fly Hans. Simply brilliant!

Izaak wrote:I have caught a lot of trout on this fly Hans.

*chuckle*

Make that two of us.

Cheers,
Hans W

That is my all time go to fly since discovering a couple of years ago. I will in all likely hood use it tomorrow.

narcodog wrote:That is my all time go to fly since discovering a couple of years ago. I will in all likely hood use it tomorrow.

For carp?

Me too. Lots of fish on this one.

Although this fly is also responsible for a falling record. There is a river here in Oregon that holds a lot of rainbows. It also holds a lot of bottom whitefish. I prided myself on not catching any whitefish where it seemed everyone in our fishing club caught plenty during their trout hunting. I had been fishing this river for 6 years...not a whitefish ever. I chalked it up to not being a heavy nymph dredger and spent 6 years harassing my fishing partners about it. Then on year seven....I bounced a size #16 CDC and Elk (after just discovering that pattern from the internet and tying a few the week before) off one of my favorite boulders which had a well formed very deep hole downstream of it. I could always count on a nice fish here if I hit the rock and dropped a dry with in 2 inches of the down river side of the rock. I did just that and hooked up one of the nicest fish I had ever caught here, or so I thought. I landed a 22 inch bottom dwelling, scaly, pale, nasty ol' whitefish that rose to the CDC and Elk. I cursed that fly for weeks and eventually got over it. Kind of.

JohnP wrote:

narcodog wrote:That is my all time go to fly since discovering a couple of years ago. I will in all likely hood use it tomorrow.

For carp?

Yes carp, horny heads, mountain whitefish, chubs but especially big golden spotted carp.

Hans, Howdy;

Got to hand it to ya, great video(s), been watching most as they get
pointed out in your posts and the others that show up alongside the linked video.

A question, ..... I have yet to hear you mention the use of wax.
There are many that swear by it. My question is, ... do you use wax ?
Just bein' courious ...

hank

narcodog wrote:

JohnP wrote:

narcodog wrote:That is my all time go to fly since discovering a couple of years ago. I will in all likely hood use it tomorrow.

For carp?

Yes carp, horny heads, mountain whitefish, chubs but especially big golden spotted carp.

Awesome. Be sure to post some pics.

hankaye wrote:Hans, Howdy;

Got to hand it to ya, great video(s), been watching most as they get
pointed out in your posts and the others that show up alongside the linked video.

A question, ..... I have yet to hear you mention the use of wax.
There are many that swear by it. My question is, ... do you use wax ?
Just bein' courious ...

hank

*chuckle*

You must not have read my text on wax use in flytying where I wrote something like: "wax is a flytier's crutch, it is a substitute for inadequate dubbing technique"

Did I mention that it was a text intended to be a little confrontational?

It dealt with my take on wax, the pros, the disadvantages.

In my tying there are few advantages to using wax. I really have only two occasions where I use wax:

- Classic Greenwells - where I stain the silk with cobbler's wax

- Touch dubbing (which has for the most part been replaced by split thread dubbing anyway)

Cheers,
Hans W